Ingot vs. Sow: What's the Difference?
Ingot and Sow Definitions
Ingot
A mass of metal, such as a bar or block, that is cast in a standard shape for convenient storage or shipment.
Sow
To scatter (seed) over the ground for growing.
Ingot
A casting mold for metal.
Sow
To scatter seed over (land, for example).
Ingot
A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents.
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Sow
To strew something around or over (an area); distribute something over
"The yard was sown with cement sculpture" (Ashley Warlick).
Ingot
(transitive) To form (scraps of metal) into ingots.
Sow
To propagate; disseminate
Sow rumors.
Ingot
That in which metal is cast; a mold.
And from the fire he took up his matterAnd in the ingot put it with merry cheer.
Sow
To scatter seed for growing.
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Ingot
A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal.
Wrought ingots from Besoara's mine.
Sow
An adult female pig, especially one that has had at least one litter.
Ingot
A block of metal that is cast in a particular shape for convenient handling
Sow
The adult female of several other animals, such as the bear.
Sow
A channel that conducts molten iron to the molds in a pig bed.
Sow
The mass of metal solidified in such a channel or mold.
Sow
A female pig.
Sow
A female bear, she-bear.
Sow
A female guinea pig.
Sow
A channel that conducts molten metal to molds.
Sow
A mass of metal solidified in a mold.
Sow
A contemptible, often fat woman.
Sow
A sowbug.
Sow
(military) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc.
Sow
(ambitransitive) To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
When I had sown the field, the day's work was over.
As you sow, so shall you reap.
Sow
(figurative) To spread abroad; to propagate.
Sow
(figurative) To scatter over; to besprinkle.
Sow
Obsolete spelling of sew
Sow
To sew. See Sew.
Sow
To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
A sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside.
And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers.
Sow
To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, . . . and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it with trifles.
[He] sowed with stars the heaven.
Now morn . . . sowed the earth with orient pearl.
Sow
To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; - literally or figuratively.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joi.
Sow
The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
Sow
A sow bug.
Sow
A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
Sow
A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.
Sow
An adult female hog
Sow
Place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth;
She sowed sunflower seeds
Sow
Introduce into an environment;
Sow suspicion or beliefs
Sow
Place seeds in or on (the ground);
Sow the ground with sunflower seeds
